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  1. #11
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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    The x/y sensitivity should be detected and adjusted automatically if you upgrade to xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.0.

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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Quote Originally Posted by tsaarni View Post
    The x/y sensitivity should be detected and adjusted automatically if you upgrade to xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.0.
    Thanks! What is the best way to upgrade? I found the source and I have downloaded it. Should I just build and install that, or is there a package available somewhere?

    - ionman

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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Somebody might have packaged it already but I didn't find any... You should be able to build it from sources. For installing you can just copy it to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so and restart xorg. Before compiling get build dependencies by running apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.

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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Thanks for your help! I downloaded the tar.gz from this site: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...put-synaptics/
    and was finally able to build it. I also had to update my xorg-macros and that was a bit of a paint.

    After I finally built it, I never ended up with a .so file. Did I build the wrong thing? I did:

    ./autogen.sh
    make
    sudo make install

    Rebooted, and the sensitivity is still wrong, so I suspect it is still using the old driver. Do you know what I am missing here?

    Thanks!

    - ionman

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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Check the current driver version in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it should say

    (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.6.4, module version = 1.2.0
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0

    If the synaptics module version is 1.1.2 you are still using the default driver.

    I tested compiling the new driver too. The .so file is under ./src/.libs/synaptics_drv.so. Regarding xorg-macros it would have been enough to just replace XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.3) with XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.1) in configure.ac as the default one seemed to work too.

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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Hooray! It works!

    For those of you that are still struggling with this issue, here is the complete how to:

    First make sure you have the build dependencies. In a terminal execute this command:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
    Download the latest version of the xorg-macros from here:
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/macros/

    Extract the folder, and cd to that directory.

    Install the newest macros:
    Code:
    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ make
    $ sudo mv /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4.old
    $ sudo cp xorg-macros.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4
    Download the latest version of the driver from here:
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...put-synaptics/

    Extract the folder, and cd to that directory.

    Build and install the new driver:
    Code:
    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ make
    $ sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so.old
    $ sudo cp src/.libs/synaptics_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
    Reboot. Enjoy!

    - ionman

  7. #17
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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Thanks to all,
    I have just completed ionman's steps on my Lenovo S10 and it works great.

    -Hurgh-

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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    I just followed your instructions using Jollicloud on my Lenovo S10 and the speed it great now but I seem to have lost the ability to tap. When I enable it in the mouse control panel it doesn't do anything. Any ideas? Thanks again!

  9. #19
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    Re: independent horizontal/vertical touchpad sensitivity settings?

    Ok just fixed my own problem. lol
    I made the following script:

    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    
    xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap Time" 32 180
    xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap durations" 32 180, 180, 100
    xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 8 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3
    and made it a startup application in the preferences.
    Last edited by macjedimatt; December 16th, 2009 at 06:38 AM.

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